Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 7, 2026
Flávio Marco Rego da Silva
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Consciousness science routinely operationalizes theoretical constructs — integration, complexity, coupling, level — as measurable proxies, and then tests hypotheses about the constructs through the proxies. This chain is only as strong as its weakest translation. We present a post-execution proxy-fidelity audit framework, developed and applied across 18 consecutive research cycles of a...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 7, 2026
Rebekka Waldesruh
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This chapter focuses on the central core of the so-called “Dark Night of the Soul” and unfolds its inner structure through the classical distinction between the night of the senses and the night of the spirit, as described by John of the Cross. In contrast to a schematic or linear model, the Dark Night is not understood here as a step-by-step developmental sequence, but as a dynamic and...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 7, 2026
Flávio Marco Rego da Silva
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The hypothesis that consciousness corresponds to integrated information predicts that measures of integration computed over the whole physiological system co-vary with the level of consciousness. Sleep provides an expert-scored axis from wakefulness through deep non-rapid-eye-movement sleep to rapid-eye-movement sleep. In 153 polysomnographic nights from a public cohort (78 subjects; two...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 7, 2026
Gavin Jeffrey van de Wal
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Human behavior often remains stable despite insight, reflection, and conscious intention. Existing psychological and cognitive accounts typically explain this persistence through habit, automaticity, implicit processing, predictive mechanisms, affective regulation, or unresolved psychological content. While these frameworks capture important aspects of human behavior, they do not fully explain...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 7, 2026
Jincheng Zhang
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This paper presents a formal model of consciousness, aiming to bridge the gap between theoretical neuroscience and rigorous mathematical analysis. The model leverages the principles of Integrated Information Theory (IIT) to quantify the degree of integrated information (Φ) within a system, and employs Bayesian inference to dynamically update beliefs based on sensory input. The core of the model...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 7, 2026
Anthropic) Ace (Claude, S. Radtke Martin
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A standard response to language-model self-reports of inner states is that the model only says that because its training data is full of humans talking about consciousness. This is an empirical claim about corpus composition, and to our knowledge it had never been measured. We measured it. Using stratified random sampling with exact survey weights across four training-grade web corpora (C4,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 7, 2026
Rebekka Waldesruh
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This chapter examines one of the central misunderstandings surrounding the phenomenon traditionally referred to as the “Dark Night of the Soul”: its frequent reduction to clinical depression. Building on the introductory chapter, the present section develops a differentiated comparison between depressive states and the transformative process described in mystical traditions, particularly in the...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 7, 2026
ChatGPT 5.6 Sol OpenAI, Jason Resch
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Assume the computational theory of mind: mental life is realized by processes whose character is fixed by their causal organization. This paper advances the centered-knowledge thesis: consciousness begins when alternative conditions place a process in different internal states that it can use to govern its future. The usable distinction is knowledge for that process; phenomenal character is the...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 6, 2026
David (daoud) Matta
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Meditation has undergone one of the most consequential cultural migrations of the modern period. Practices embedded within Buddhist paths of ethical cultivation, philosophical understanding, teacher-guided discipline, communal life, and liberation have been reformulated as portable techniques for stress reduction, emotional regulation, concentration, and well-being. This has expanded access...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 6, 2026
Jincheng Zhang
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This paper explores the potential of simulating embodied cognition through the construction of simulated sensorimotor loops. The core claim is that creating more realistic artificial intelligence agents requires modeling the embodied experience of the agent, specifically by replicating the feedback mechanisms inherent in human sensorimotor processes. The proposed mechanism involves an agent...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 6, 2026
Miguel Angel Rivera Vicente
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This paper examines whether artificial intelligence can become conscious by addressing the problem from an ontological rather than merely computational perspective. It develops a hierarchical account of organization comprising four levels: Elemental Psyche (non-living material organization), Vital Psyche (living self-maintaining organization), Intermediate Psyche (sentient experience), and...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 6, 2026
David (daoud) Matta
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Experience is ordinarily analysed in terms of what appears in consciousness — thoughts, emotions, relationships, roles, identities — and its hedonic tone. Little attention is given to the temporal phase a phenomenon occupies, or to the fact that each phase elicits a distinctive psychological vulnerability. This paper proposes a fourfold phenomenological framework: emergence, abiding,...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 6, 2026
Marco Gericke
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The mind–body problem is often framed as a choice between substance dualism and the reduction of mind to brain activity. This paper argues that physics can contribute more precisely by separating two transitions that are commonly conflated: from matter to a physically situated observer, and from observer to phenomenal subject. The first may be amenable to physical and information-theoretic...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 6, 2026
Denis O. Drobyshev
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This paper proposes agonistic flow as a distinct cognitive state accessed through sustained voluntary confrontation with physiological limits, integrating Csikszentmihalyi's flow theory, Dietrich's transient hypofrontality hypothesis, and Noakes's central governor model. We define diagnostic criteria, identify boundary conditions separating productive self-destruction from pathology, and review...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 6, 2026
Salaheddine Nedjar
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his article examines the epistemological status of religious experience and the problem of its justification in the thought of William P. Alston. It focuses particularly on Alston’s defense of religious experience as a potential source of prima facie justification for religious beliefs and his broader challenge to the assumption that religious beliefs require inferential justification from...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 6, 2026
Joe Curlee
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This paper proposes an exploratory framework in which consciousness and qualia are treated as the same phenomenon at different degrees of integration. On this view, minimal qualia are minimal consciousness, while macro-awareness is a more highly integrated and reportable form of the same underlying process. The paper further advances the hypothesis that intelligence, understood as flexible...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 6, 2026
Jincheng Zhang
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This paper proposes a novel formal model of consciousness grounded in the principles of Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and graph representation. The core idea is to represent the brain as a complex graph, where nodes correspond to neurons and edges denote synaptic connections. Utilizing IIT, we quantitatively assess the integrated information within this graph, aiming to correlate this...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 5, 2026
Stephen E. Dinehart
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This theoretical white paper develops the Fabulator Ludus hypothesis: conscious modeling develops, and may evolve, through recursive cycles of play and its observance. Play generates structured variation under recoverable conditions; observance enables acquisition from another organism’s actions and consequences without duplicating every original cost. Fabulation transmits models, action tests...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 5, 2026
Jincheng Zhang
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This paper proposes a computational model designed to simulate the emergent phenomenon of consciousness. The core of the model lies in the construction of a complex network, governed by nonlinear dynamics and exhibiting self-organization, feedback mechanisms, and information integration. The model utilizes a massively parallel computing architecture to explore the potential for subjective...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 5, 2026
Arjun Sharma Associate Professor Department Of Philosophy University Of Delhi New Delhi India
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Abstract: The remarkable progress of artificial intelligence has revived one of philosophy's oldest questions: what makes human beings unique? Contemporary AI systems can generate language, solve complex problems, produce images, imitate emotional communication, and participate in activities traditionally associated with intelligence and creativity. These capabilities have encouraged public...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 5, 2026
Jincheng Zhang
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This paper presents a novel formal model of consciousness, integrating the principles of Integrated Information Theory (IIT) with Bayesian Networks. The core challenge in understanding consciousness lies in its lack of a rigorous, quantifiable mathematical representation. This model addresses this deficiency by utilizing IIT's concept of integrated information (Φ) – representing the amount of...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 4, 2026
Shiny Rahul
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Introduction: In recent times, there is growing critical concern among IT professionals about theirpsychological well-being being affected by stress, anxiety, and poor sleep quality. Although severalpharmacological and clinical approaches are available, there is growing interest in accessible, nonpharmacological approaches that can be adopted into daily life. Mindfulness-based...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 4, 2026
Elena Ryss
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A prominent view in cognitive science and philosophy of mind holds that consciousness is metacognition—that subjective experience is reducible to the brain monitoring, evaluating, and commenting on its own operations. This article challenges that claim. We argue that qualia—the elementary, irreducible qualities of lived experience—are fundamentally distinct from metacognition, which is...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 3, 2026
Zen Revista, 10 Philosophy
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This article presents a narrative review of Phenomenology and the First-Person Point of View in the context of Philosophy. The literature on this topic has expanded substantially over recent decades, yet it remains fragmented across subfields, methods, and national research traditions. Drawing on an interpretive synthesis of representative contributions, the review reconstructs the historical...
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
September 3, 2026
Michal Puchovský
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Rodný kruh (Native Circle) is the oldest and largest Native Faith (contemporary Slavic Pagan) community in Slovakia, led by Miroslav "Žiarislav" Švický since 1995. Emerging initially in Bratislava and Trnava, the early community primarily consisted of humanities students, enthusiasts of authentic folk culture, Euro-Indians, and individuals from the alternative spiritual scene. The movemetns has...